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2 unusual facts about Lynne Russell


Lynne Russell

In 1989, at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, she combined her connections to the military and to her colleagues by pinning the coveted Air Assault badge on CNN’s first Special Assignments Correspondent, friend, and current fiancė, Chuck de Caro, upon his graduation from the US Army Air Assault School.

Fellow anchor Chuck Roberts, who had delivered the inaugural newscast on that network, produced a short retrospective of Russell’s time at CNN.



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